Ambulatory Surgery Centers Nonprofit health system Fairview Health Services and Atlas Healthcare Partners, which joins with nonprofit health systems and physicians to develop and operate ASCs, announced the formation of a new joint venture (JV) to develop and operate a network of ASCs across Minnesota and “surrounding regions.” The partners state that their JV…
Oregon health system Asante, which last year closed a community hospital citing financial difficulties, is seeking to “dodge state review” of a surgery center purchase, according to The Lund Report, which covers health news in Oregon and Washington. The outlet reports that Asante “quietly asked the state for permission to…
Advanced Spine and Pain (ASAP) has provided aerial footage and information regarding its soon-to-open 12,075-square-foot outpatient clinic and ASC in Phoenix. It says the new facility “marks the evolution of ASAP into a regional leader for a five-specialty care continuum.” Those five specialties are interventional pain care; orthopedic and spine…
The University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute (LDI) of Health Economics has posted a Q&A with one of the authors of a study that examines the ongoing shit of surgeries to the outpatient setting. The study, “Inpatient to Outpatient Shifts in Surgical Care: Persistence of COVID-19 Era Changes and Socioeconomic…
Want to take a look inside a soon-to-open cardiovascular ASC? Lifestyle media outlet Bham Now has toured and shared photos of Birmingham Heart & Vascular Surgery Center, which is opening soon in an existing building on the UAB St. Vincent’s East campus in Birmingham, Ala. The article, titled “How Birmingham…
ABC affiliate KCRG reports that Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) more than $14.8 million to settle a violation of the Civil Monetary Penalties Law. “The hospital told the government it may have broken the law regarding an…
Gulfshore Business reports that three Southwest Florida-based companies are partnering on a new ASC in West Virginia – and one of them is medical device manufacturer Arthrex. The project is described as a “collaborative model” involving Arthrex, construction management company DeAngelis Diamond and architecture firm Studio+, which are working together on…
Community Health Systems (CHS) has shed numerous hospitals from its portfolio this year, as we have previously reported. Now the other shoe is dropping, as it has announced ongoing plans to grow its ASC portfolio. In February, CHS affiliate Baldwin Health opened its de novo Specialty Surgery Center in Foley,…
Cardiovascular Physicians of Delaware and its partner organization, US Health Partners, have teamed with ChristianaCare on a joint venture to establish a new cardiovascular ASC in Newark, Del. The ChristianaCare Cardiovascular Surgery Center at Newark will be launched through another joint venture that was formed in 2024 between ChristianaCare and…
EP Lab Digest, a media outlet for electrophysiology (EP) professionals, has published a Q&A with Wilber Su, MD, FACC, FHRS, director of heart rhythm services at Banner-University Medical Center and professor of medicine at the University of Arizona, that discusses a panel he is moderating at the upcoming Heart Rhythm…
